X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=README;h=36fef6ec041cd1d0d31c79a98f23a84e9a8691fd;hb=27dedf0;hp=4a2616ba570728320f0b2cf8d7e80df32cbba603;hpb=60d64db4614b1007ca37c228923ec1964d5ad394;p=git.git diff --git a/README b/README index 4a2616ba5..36fef6ec0 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -396,8 +396,8 @@ git-commit-tree will return the name of the object that represents that commit, and you should save it away for later use. Normally, you'd commit a new `HEAD` state, and while git doesn't care where you save the note about that state, in practice we tend to just write the -result to the file `.git/HEAD`, so that we can always see what the -last committed state was. +result to the file pointed at by `.git/HEAD`, so that we can always see +what the last committed state was. Here is an ASCII art by Jon Loeliger that illustrates how various pieces fit together. @@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ tend to be small and fairly self-explanatory. In particular, if you follow the convention of having the top commit name in `.git/HEAD`, you can do - git-cat-file commit $(cat .git/HEAD) + git-cat-file commit HEAD to see what the top commit was.